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1913 - 24 comes close Not my favourite, but doesn't even enter my top 5 of worst kits (or top 10 if we include away kits).

The shirts aren't getting worse, you are all just getting older. They'll be creating a new dance for its release on TikTok.

I love/hate the new white/claret shorts and love/hate the claret/black/amber socks. I always loved/hated the hoop/half hoop/no hoop tops and the new collar is class/gantin'. The sponsor's logo is cheap/OK/classic and the trim needs no change/tweaked/binned. Just the weans/nobody/everyone will be buying this. Congratulations/Are you on drugs/WTF? to all involved/

They don't. 20% of business fail in the first year. 60% within 3 - 5 years. Boyle bankrupted our business, and if wasn't for the fact he chose not to be repaid all he was owed from the club, we wouldn't be here.

We speculate all the time - that's how we ended up with players like Kipre and Ojamaa - and more recently Slattery, Davor, Moses, Stuparević and, of course, Bair. What we can't afford to do is break the wage structure for one or two players at the cost of leaving us 2 or 3 players short in the squad. We've seen first hand on multiple occasions how injuries can wreak havoc on our normally small pool. We ended up in administration because Boyle tried that approach with guys like Spencer and Goram.

The WS has thousands of members. If they (we) haven't been happy with what the Board has been doing we could have changed things. The simplest way do to that was to vote out people you didn't think were doing a good job. I took that line at the last couple of elections, but there were obviously plenty who were happy and have voted for the same faces.

Was an entertaining game, especially while it was 1 - 0. Argentina wasted a number of good chances, and Canda had 3 or 4 good opportunities to equalise. That last few times I have seen Canada they have struggled to finish off the chances they create. It looks like the gaffer isn't going to change things while they still create; even if they are lacking the clinical edge. So Theo could be on the bench for the whole tournament.

Not everyone is blessed with the pace of a David Turnbull, Gary McAllister or Bobby Russell.

Copa America kicks of this evening. Time for Theo to make his mark and bump up his value. Or watch the full game from the sideline like the rest of us - although he'll have a much better seat.

I'm no Hollywood entrepreneur, but I'd probably wait for a formal rejection of my first offer before I made a second, worse (for me) offer.

You say this every time, but have rarely (never) been able to give a single example of better players in our price range who want to play for us. Also, there is no point in spending all our money on 1 player when we have 4 positions that need filled.

2 more than Bair in the season before we signed him - and he played 27 games. And 2 more than van Veen scored the season before we signed him.

Well if you want to be doubly pedantic, you're assuming all the remaining shareholders are going to vote against him - but I take your point on the sums.

Also "its is very very difficult to see any way that could happen" is just another way of saying "it's possible that it could happen"

It's like they took the structure of Les Hutchison's takeover deal and negotiated the exact opposite.

Absolutely. I was just pointing out that even in the best case scenario, EB will essentially have a majority without the need to purchase any more shares - and all this "not the majority shareholder" is meaningless.

"Under the investment proposal in year 6, Erik Barmack would own 49% of the club’s shares." "This, however, very importantly would not make him the majority shareholder in the club." As far as I can see, while technically true, it is for all intents and purposes true that 49% would let him win every single shareholder vote. All it takes is for 1.1% of the remaining shareholders to not vote - which is pretty much guaranteed in any shareholders voting situation.

It's hardly surprising given the window only opened recently and there are 10 weeks before it closes. If I was a player I wouldn't be in a rush to sign a contract this soon either. I understand that managers want all their business done early, but they way transfers work these days it's just not possible. And the way the English system operates, if we are looking to bring in loans from down south, those deals don't happen until the end of August. I'd almost be more worried if we had concluded our business before our overseas training camp, because I'd be wondering how many targets we'd missed out on by not waiting.

If anyone is interested in the weekly totals, you can grab a copy of the spreadsheet using this link. (Moved it to OneDrive - should be good now).

Now we are back in pre-season, thought it might be useful to post last season's MOTM tally! As always there are a few results that may (or may not) raise an eyebrow. The complex formula I used was 3 for a win, 2 for second, 1 for third. Georgie Gent was the overall winner, with Spittal and Bair 2nd and 3rd. Mugabi consistently picked up points throughput the season to share 4th with Slattery. Slattery himself might have run away with it, but still gathered an impressive total considering his last appearance was Jan 2nd. Full breakdown as follows: Georgie Gent 31 Blair Spittal 28 Theo Bair 24 Bevis Mugabi 23 Callum Slattery 23 Harry Paton 21 Liam Kelly 20 Lennon Miller 19 Mika Biereth 19 Dan Casey 15 Davor Zdravkovski 15 Stephen O'Donnell 13 Paul McGinn 13 Jack Vale 12 Shane Blaney 6 Brodie Spencer 5 Calum Butcher 4 Ewan Wilson 3 Adam Devine 2 Luca Ross 1 Conor Wilkinson 1 Adam Montgomery 1 Andy Halliday 1 Sam Nicholson 1

It's only misleading if you're not familiar with accounting - and I make no claims about being an accountant at any level. In the US we have GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principals), so when you read a balance sheet that's been prepared to that standard you know what's allowed and what's not. That's especially true for people that want to invest money based on that balance sheet. From what I have seen of our accounts, the income, expenditure, assets and liabilities were all clearly laid out. That's all the matters in these cases. When it comes to negotiating a deal, neither party is going to care what we call something, they only care about each of those buckets. It's like companies and investors that love to quote their EBITA - useful in some cases as a comparison tool, but can hide a lot of details if you ignore the balance sheet. If we're using it to mislead someone, that's an entirely different matter (basically fraud), but I don't think any investors are being misled here.

Technically it was properly, but I'd still suggest that having your shoulder ahead of a defender's foot does not make you offside. That's not why that particular law was created and needs to be updated if we are going to squabble over millimetres. Personally, I'd open the discussion with the forward needing their entire body to be ahead of the defender before they were offside.

There are plenty of good keepers across the UK that aren't getting a sniff of first team football. Hopefully we can persuade one of them a regular start is better than coaching the U18s. Even if it's just a loan deal (although those don't usually happen until later in the window).

Is that some of that Mexican pizza I keep hearing about?

That makes sense from a fans' perspective. I feel like some the Board were also swayed by the glamour, rather than focusing on the cold, hard details of the negotiation.